This final picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, published just months before his death in 2012, is as raucous, as challenging, as unfiltered as anything he has produced since he won the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. Bumble-Ardy, once a cartoon boy Sendak created for Sesame Street in the 1970s, is now a pig, a boisterous little fellow who never had a birthday party. Now living with his long-suffering Aunt Adeline, Bumble-Ardy will have a party for birthday nine, and he invites some grubby swine—even if sweet Adeline doesn't think it's fine! Sendak fans of all ages will find much here to ponder and explore.